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Ethics in Public Administration and Administrative
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, Select the incorrect alternative. Quiet corruption in the health sector could manifest in
[See article in E-reserves titled “Silent and Lethal: How Quiet Corruption Undermines
Africa’s Development Efforts: World Bank”]:
(1) Absenteeism in public health facilities.
(2) Health workers generating revenue through farming activities.
(3) Leakage of medicines from public health facilities.
(4) Weak regulation of the production and distribution of medicine.
(5) None of the above.
Select the correct alternative. When public officials uncritically execute state edicts that
amount to injustice to society (similarly to the unquestioning obedience to authority as
revealed during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in the early 1990’s
by the former police officer, Colonel Eugene de Kock), the prevailing public service
ethics could be typified as:
(1) Modernism.
(2) Post-modernism.
(3) Sociological Pluralism.
(4) Anthropological Pluralism.
Select the correct alternative to fill the blank space in the sentence. “The state is the
protector of the rights and … of all members of society.”.
(1) obligations
(2) life
(3) welfare
(4) property
According to Rose Ackerman (1999:91) “Corruption is the misuse of …“. Select the
correct alternative to complete the sentence.
(1) private wealth for public grants.
(2) private enterprises for public institutions.
(3) public power for private gain.
(4) private resources for private gain.
Select the incorrect alternative from the following options. Loxton divides state functions
into 3 main categories.
(1) Protective and coercive line functions.
(2) Business development line functions.
(3) Promotive and developmental line functions.
(4) Enabling and facilitative staff functions.
Select the incorrect alternative. According to Clapper, to maintain public service integrity,
a high incidence of congruity should exist between …
(1) personal ethics.
(2) treasury policy frameworks.
(3) public service codes of conduct.
(4) professional ethics.
Ethics in Public Administration and Administrative
Justice
Questions and Answers
Feedback
UPDATED
, Select the incorrect alternative. Quiet corruption in the health sector could manifest in
[See article in E-reserves titled “Silent and Lethal: How Quiet Corruption Undermines
Africa’s Development Efforts: World Bank”]:
(1) Absenteeism in public health facilities.
(2) Health workers generating revenue through farming activities.
(3) Leakage of medicines from public health facilities.
(4) Weak regulation of the production and distribution of medicine.
(5) None of the above.
Select the correct alternative. When public officials uncritically execute state edicts that
amount to injustice to society (similarly to the unquestioning obedience to authority as
revealed during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in the early 1990’s
by the former police officer, Colonel Eugene de Kock), the prevailing public service
ethics could be typified as:
(1) Modernism.
(2) Post-modernism.
(3) Sociological Pluralism.
(4) Anthropological Pluralism.
Select the correct alternative to fill the blank space in the sentence. “The state is the
protector of the rights and … of all members of society.”.
(1) obligations
(2) life
(3) welfare
(4) property
According to Rose Ackerman (1999:91) “Corruption is the misuse of …“. Select the
correct alternative to complete the sentence.
(1) private wealth for public grants.
(2) private enterprises for public institutions.
(3) public power for private gain.
(4) private resources for private gain.
Select the incorrect alternative from the following options. Loxton divides state functions
into 3 main categories.
(1) Protective and coercive line functions.
(2) Business development line functions.
(3) Promotive and developmental line functions.
(4) Enabling and facilitative staff functions.
Select the incorrect alternative. According to Clapper, to maintain public service integrity,
a high incidence of congruity should exist between …
(1) personal ethics.
(2) treasury policy frameworks.
(3) public service codes of conduct.
(4) professional ethics.
